Mark 5:29-30 “Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. (30) And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched My clothes?”
The passage of scripture quoted above records the incident of the woman with the issue of blood who was made well by only touching the Lord’s garment. We know that she was healed by the anointing, for our Lord Jesus recognised that power or the anointing had gone out from Him. Once again we see that Jesus was so saturated with the power of the Holy Spirit that even His clothes carried that anointing while He was wearing them. Nevertheless Jesus primary method of healing people was to lay His hands on them. And so just as power went out from Him through His clothes when the woman with the issue of blood touched Him, so it is that power or the anointing went out from Him though His hands into the bodies of whomever He was healing at the time. The anointing on Jesus was a tangible power that could be felt as it flowed from His hands into the bodies of those needing healing, for the woman with the issue of blood felt that power flow into her body when she was healed.
Matthew 8:13 “Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you." And his servant was healed that same hour.”
Although laying on of hands was the primary way that Jesus ministered to the sick, as we have already seen it was not the only way He ministered. Our Lord also healed simply by speaking words of faith. In the above quoted account in scripture our Lord Jesus did not lay hands on the centurion’s servant. He simply spoke the word and the centurion’s servant was healed. There are many other ways recorded in scripture in which Jesus healed the sick, but we will not examine them in this teaching because the focus of this teaching is the laying on of hands.
Michael E.B. Maher
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